Windows Support Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Windows Support Engineer
England > North of England

The median Windows Support Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £168 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 204 232
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 -
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Support Engineer 6 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 11
10th Percentile £122 - -
25th Percentile £132 £173 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £168 £175 £165
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +6.06% -
75th Percentile £225 £219 £223
90th Percentile £241 £266 £260
England median daily rate £175 £195 £200
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% -28.57%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 4,446 5,553 6,985
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 95.10% 96.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,815 3,925 5,141
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £381 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £590 £550
90th Percentile £674 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 172 298
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.55 £11.12
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.57 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £30.64 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.73% +65.62% +2.78%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.40 £30.44
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.98 £50.23
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Windows Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Windows Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Support Engineer in the North of England

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in the North of England

Windows Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Support Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Support Engineer in the North of England

Windows Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Support Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +16 4 £141 -19.43% 1
Yorkshire +18 2 £238 -11.21%
Windows Support Engineer
England

Windows Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Windows Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Windows Support Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
2 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) SLA
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
3 2 (33.33%) Clustering
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Apple
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow

Windows Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
1 2 (33.33%) Inventory Management
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Release Management
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Apple
2 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) VMware